This website, www.chrisrichards.uk, collects private user data using the following form: which generates emails sent to: me@chrisrichards.uk. The data from these forms is emailed to the address listed above and also stored on the website server. The website server is accessible by the website administrators for Go Daddy (https://www.godaddy.com) Go Daddy does not access or share this data other than by request from Chris Richards, Owner of Chris Richards Photography. 

Chris Richards Photography does not engage in email marketing specific to our services. Your personal details will not be used for such marketing purposes nor will they be passed onto any third parties.

Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note that they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

We take care over the processes around looking after personal data stored on our physical systems. Chris Richards Photography holds the following personal data of clients: i) names ii) addresses iii) phone numbers iv) email addresses within soft copy as well as soft copy wedding client day plan documents. Soft copy contracts and day plans are safely stored within my password protected home office iMac and backed up to encrypted external hard drives. Client photos are safely stored within my password protected home office iMac and backed up to encrypted external hard drives.

Under GDPR legislation, a photograph may in some instances constitute a form of personal data where they can be processed to allow “the unique identification or authentication of a natural person”. Chris Richards Photography will never photograph an individual as a means of unique identification or authentication unless consensual.  Guests captured in portraits or in group photos do so as part of the event and their rights are protected by Chris Richards Photography as detailed in this privacy policy. In terms of explicit GDPR compliance, people are photographed within the parameters of GDPR legislation on the basis of ‘legitimate interests’.

The taking of photographs of people when viewed as a form of processing personal data is necessary for the legitimate interests of Chris Richards Photography as a photography business unless there is a good reason to protect a given individual's personal data which overrides those legitimate interests. Operating within the parameters of legitimate interests as laid out in GDPR legislation, the disproportionate effort involved in providing privacy policy information to people at the event and the degree to which it would distract us from performing our job renders it infeasible to do. Wedding clients are therefore requested in their contract to direct their guests to read this privacy policy in advance of the event and to advise them to contact us in advance with any concerns around the processing of their personal data, namely being photographed.

We adopt a safe and responsible Social Media Policy. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify the authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media

To enable the continued work of Chris Richards Photography, I reserve the right, with your consent, to select photographs to be used for promotional purposes. To promote Chris Richards Photography, photographs may be displayed on the Chris Richards Photography website, blog, social media and on brochures/flyers that promote the services of Chris Richards Photography. Photographs occasionally will be submitted to lifestyle photography blogs, on lifestyle photography related websites and magazine articles; providing that the images used are used lawfully and without damage to Chris Richards Photography's client(s). The rights of the people captured in these photographs are protected by Chris Richards Photography as detailed in this privacy policy.

Anyone photographed by Chris Richards Photography, and whether past or current may withdraw consent for a photograph in which they appear to be displayed. The process for this is to email Chris Richards Photography at  specifying the photo in question. With that request, Chris Richards Photography will then remove the photo from online and printed display wherever it appears.
 

By clicking 'submit' on your contact form, you hereby are consenting to Chris Richards Photography contacting your selected email address to respond to your enquiry within 72 hours. Clients are reminded that if you do not wish for your email to be kept on the system then please state so.